Metarepresentation, Self-Organization and Art

The Editors: Wolfgang Wildgen (1944) is professor of linguistics at the University of Bremen. His major books include: Catastrophe Theoretic Semantics (1982); Process, Image, and Meaning (1994); De la grammaire au discours (1999); The Evolution of Human Language (2004); Kognitive Grammatik (2008). He is the author of articles and book chapters.Barend van Heusden (1957) is reader in semiotics of culture at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) and has published widely on literary theory, semiotics of culture, cultural evolution, and on arts in culture. He is at present the coordinator of a national research project on culture education curriculum development.

• Contents: Barend van Heusden/Wolfgang Wildgen: Introduction – Rik Peters: Torturing the Torturer, Interpretation of Evidence as Metarepresentation – Marcel Bax: Enthymematic Reasoning as a Meaning-making Strategy in Spoken Discourse – Peiling Cui: Metarepresentation in Linguistic Jokes – Michael Leyton: The Mathematical Structure of Pain – Todd Oakley/Per Aage Brandt: Hypotyposis: Metarepresentation, Mind-Reading, and Fictive Interaction – John Bateman: Film and Representation: Making Filmic Meaning – Ole Kühl: Musical Semantics: A Very Brief Introduction – Wolfgang Wildgen: Metarepresentation, Self-organization and Self-reference in the Visual Arts – Svend Østergaard: Imitation, Mirror Neurons, and Meta-cognition – Ulf Harendarski: A Pragmaticistic View on Metarepresentative Semiosis – András Kertész/Csilla Rákosi: On the Metascientific Representation of Inconsistency in Linguistic Theories – Peter Jörg Plath: Self-Organization and Identity - Links between Theories? – Boris Schapiro/Hella Schapiro: Metarepresentations and Paradigms.